Extension Activities

1. Ask students to write the compound words from the worksheet in alphabetical order.

2. Assign students to work in pairs to make a list of 50 compound words.

3. Challenge students to make lists of compounds that share word parts. For example, how many compounds can they list with light, house, back, or up? Answers include: flashlight, lighthouse, limelight; greenhouse; housefly, housekeeper; backyard, horseback, backwater, etc.

4. Ask students to illustrate each part of a compound word, and then exchange papers to guess the compound word. For example, Student A might draw a piece of wood and a wave in the ocean. Student B correctly guesses surfboard.